Week 3 2018 What do NL/nl look like in classrooms?

This week I'd like you to continue to think about what makes new literacies  new and especially consider what they look like in classrooms.  New literacies are not just about integration of technology but about how literacy is transformed. I added a bit about the differences between New Literacies and new literacies on last's weeks blog in response to your question/uncertainty.  Let me know if we need to revisit this distinction at our F2F meeting on Sept. 14. There was also a question about activity based curriculum.  Think about this concept about being based in learner's activity around literacy that is goal directed (activity as a verb), not as basing your classroom on activities before determining goals and purposes of your lessons (activity as a noun). I think that this is consistent with what you already know and do.

As you discuss this week on your own blog, please make sure to use the following terms in your discussions: goal driven reading and writing, affordances, constraints, open networked environments, multimodal texts, literacy practices, social practices, collaboration, communication, critical stance, persistence, flexibility, reflection, teacher and student roles and relationships.  You will be introduced to frameworks for classroom practice including TPACK, TPACK+, 21st century literacy learning, flipped classroom, IRT.  You have already read about Literacy 2.0 and activity based curriculum. Discuss your thoughts on all of these frameworks: similarities, differences, challenges. You might want to look carefully at Reflection question 2 at the end of H Chapter 10 and respond to that.  I have also uploaded to Canvas 6 articles that illustrate NL/nl in classrooms. Each of you should pick a different one to read and then summarize the classroom practices described in the article for each other and discuss how the descriptions of the classroom practices demonstrate the skills, strategies, and dispositions for 21st Century Literacy.  I'm sure each of you will also have other topics that you would like to discuss as well.

I hope you have a good Labor Day Holiday weekend and a good week next week. Don't forget to complete a virtual check in form for me please.I'd appreciate if you could do that by Wednesday.